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The Okome Matsuri, or Rice Festival, is being held at Yokohama’s Aka Renga Soko this weekend. My family and I went to it yesterday afternoon and enjoyed the sunny weather and plenty of food.

Aka Renga Soko is often used as the site of many events. Oktoberfest is also there. At the festival, there were several tents set up for food vendors, which were selling a large variety of interesting foods. I’d like to talk about what I ate, since everyone was there for the food.

The festival grounds with the Red Brick Warehouses in the background.

Ebi kushiten (Shrimp tempura on a stick) was pretty good. I love shrimp tempura, and the sauce was very good.

Maguro gyoza (tuna gyoza) was an interesting food. Usually, gyoza has pork and vegetables in it, this had tuna. It was quite good.

This was some of the food, including mabodofu (at top), maguro gyoza, pork, ebi kushiten, and some tomato dish which I didn’t eat. At the bottom was nori.

These escalators do actually go somewhere, but this is something you’ll see everywhere right now. Due to the power shortage, most escalators are turned off to help conserve energy and prevent blackouts. It may be a bit inconvenient for some, but it gives people more exercise.

This building is one of the newest buildings in the Minato Mirai area, TOC Minato Mirai. It’s next to Sakuragicho station, and was completed this year. It has a shopping centre, restaurants, hotel and a 13 screen movie theatre.

This is TOC Minato Mirai, or Colette-Mare, a new building in Minato Mirai.